GadgetTrak Lets You Find Your Lost Apple Gadgets [New iOS App GadgetTrak Constantly Updates Its Position Via SSL Connection]

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If you’re anything like me, you have a tendency to lose stuff. And sometimes, it’s stuff you don’t want to lose, especially because it happens to be worth big pots of loot. And if you’re sick of calling your own cell phone in a bid to spot it by echolocation, then you’ll be happy to hear about the new iOS app, GadgetTrak.

GadgetTrak basically operates as a Big Brother for your Apple gear, working with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to send a constant report of its whereabouts back to the GadgetTrak servers via secure SSL connection. It reports when it has “significantly changed its location”, and keeps GadgetTrak apprised of its movements. This will actually also work with Mac and Windows laptops, too, if you follow on to the Trak.me website.

Downsides, though, aside from the obvious include that the application has to be activated before it’ll start tracking (though word is that, even if the app is quit, it will still report a “major location change” has occurred) and it’ll also burn more juice than normal from your battery.

The obvious downside, meanwhile, is more like a set of unintended consequences, as this gives a good angle for creepy stalker types to follow you around if the data can be misused. There’s not a whole lot of word on how secure GadgetTrak’s setup is, but any potential for misuse makes my eyebrows raise. That and will GadgetTrak use the information for marketing purposes? I mean, if they discover my iPhone went to Starbucks for three hours, will they start sending me coffee ads? Or sell my name and contact data to coffee manufacturers? Maybe a little paranoid, but a viable issue.

Normally, GadgetTrak 2, the newest version, is priced at $3.99, but there’s a sale on where they’ll knock three bucks off. So if you want to keep track of your hardware, or let your hardware keep track of you, you’ll be able to get this right now via iTunes.

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